Father Quotes
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It is very important that children learn from their fathers and mothers how to love one another- not in the school, not from the teacher, but from you. It is very important that you share with your children the joy of that smile. There will be misunderstandings; every family has its cross, its suffering. Always be the first to forgive with a smile. Be cheerful, be happy.
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My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.
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Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.
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My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.
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Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea, there'll be no "charge" left. You can't father children that way.
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My father always told me that. "Nobody knows anything, so don't listen to anyone else."
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I never really saw [my father] at all when I was growing up.
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Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.
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Even if I'd had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for a decade and a half, I probably would still have made some of the same choices for movies that I've made.
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The amount of guilt you deal with as a parent is pretty profound. It's a constant balancing act. I'm an ambitious person, but when I became a father, ambition had a different hold on me. Providing for my kids was important, but the superficial ambition drifted away.
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People ask me all the time, "What kind of father are you?" I won't know until my kids are grown.
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To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman.
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This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety of spirit, that is unspeakable.
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The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.
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Margaret Thatcher admitted to being the daughter of her father but not the daughter of her mother!
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Trump must've been an extraordinary father to have raised well-adjusted kids.
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But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.
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He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.
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I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did.
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Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.
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After paying for the wedding, about the only thing a father has left to give away is the bride.
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Jesus was restrained by the Father to do only what the Father was doing, and You are to be restrained by the Spirit to do only what Jesus is doing!
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I remember my father saying that you're about to awaken when you dream that you're dreaming.
